I would agree about the improv playing on the Chet Song lesson. I actually started a thread a while back about how much I learned from that section of that lesson. Great song, great lesson.My current favorite is probably either Huckleberry or Maceo. They're both such pretty melodies. I think subconsciously I might like them because none of the licks seem too fast for me.

My current favourite is the same as always. Wishful Thinking. Why? Because my introduction to Jim was the Fender Princeton promo video and Wishful Thinking is the first music played as Jim enters the Living Room and unpacks. Hauntingly slow version, dripping with depth. Man, that 40 seconds was life altering. Seriously!!

Hard to pick just one as you all know. Jim has so many tunes and constantly performing new tunes that all have his signature licks. My "favorites of the week (or month)" are in regular rotation, but right now I am really enjoying Jim's interpretations of some cover tunes, particularly "She's a Woman" and "Manic Depression."

I'd have to say currently it's 'Table For One'. It's a great lonesome telecaster tune. I feel it also embodies Campilongo's 'vibe'----which to me is New York Cool. If you're cool in New York you can still do the country twang stuff.

The title of the tune---I'd be disappointed if it was done with another type of guitar other than a telecaster. I'm a certified guitar dork - love them all----but am partial to telecasters.

I had to edit down my post above, turns out there is a chance I have some of the song titles mixed up...suffice it to say I do not know the name of all Jim's tunes, but I do know they are all pretty rippin!

Yes - there are so many good tracks, so i cant say that this or that Number i like best.Maybe it is "no fun" - that number touches me in a special way. What i like is "Helen Keller...." especially the end is extremely cool. And "Finger Puppet" - the Part where Jim is tuning down the E String - ingenious, brilliant!

I'm new here, but really pleased to join you guys and thought this might be a good place to start getting involved!

I'd have to say that I think my favourite JC song is probably Fingerpuppet. Those tones are so grungy and so sweet at the same time. I'm a sucker for the heavier/more raw songs of his. Perhaps one day I'll get some of those out of my Tele/Princeton combo! (doubt it, somehow)

Count me in as far as my favorite song from Jim changing often. Right now it's "Blues for Roy." I love how the song builds from simple chords to single note runs with volume swells and eventually returns to the simple chord structure of the intro. My absolute favorite part is how you can hear Jim switch to the bridge pickup right before the volume swells. Very cool.

Edit: Stumbled across a video of Jim playing it live. Looks like he's doing tone swells, not volume swells.

I was just watching the live clip of "Blues for Roy" above, and it dawned on me that the neck on Jim's 59 Tele looks different. I'm pretty sure the body is the same. I can see the missing chip on the pickguard. But the neck looks way glossier and cleaner. Jim, if you're reading this, did you retire the neck on your 59? And if so, what did you use to replace it?

Sometimes Jim uses his custom shop 59 tele from Fender of recent "reissue." Not sure if I can tell the difference though. Sometimes I wonder myself and that is from just a couple feet away. The lights can def play tricks on your eyes. To tell them apart by sound, for me, would be close to impossible. Both sonically and aesthetically, I would need them both together at the same time to compare. Although, that that is far from necessary.

I just want to clarify my last post, to define "sometimes" by saying, Jim has the real1959 tele most or all of the shows. Every now and then because of the lights, or for whatever reason, I wonder if it is the new one. Id say 95 percent of the time there's no doubt it's the old one. Jim told me he plays the new ones though.

It could be only psychological, but to my ears the 59 always sounded a bit more "acoustic" (judging by the videos alone of course). Other than that, if the light do not help to see the neck, I believe you can always tell the original 59 from the custom shop by the unmistakable broken pickguard on the 59...;)

"Because my introduction to Jim was the Fender Princeton promo video and Wishful Thinking is the first music played as Jim enters the Living Room and unpacks. Hauntingly slow version, dripping with depth. Man, that 40 seconds was life altering. Seriously!!"

COULDN'T AGREE MORE. That wasn't necessarily my into to Jim, but it IS the first time I said to myself "woah- what's THIS?" Haven't looked back since!

my first post here ... just want to say how much I love Jim's appreciation for the quiet, spacious, lonesome, and risky. Especially regarding what I consider to be his "3 AM ruminations" like "Pepper" and now the great "Alana." Marvelous. Timeless.